[(Part One is Here)](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/270899/the-quest-for-the-winter-chickens-of-the-bash)

As every year winter has come... and as every year the hunt for hats and secret has started. So, following the [recent events in the Tavern](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/304285/what-is-the-chicken) I was following the Chicken tracks back to the Winter Bash site.

Sadly with all the snow, following our little feathered fellow tracks was harder than expected, so I was just snooping around, looking for (chicken) Easter Eggs, and as every year the common test check-list that purple one provided was yielding nothing noteworthy (5 years later, still no dancing cats / bjb animation fro inputting the Konami code on the bash site...).

Then, I remembered sometime ago someone implied something about a Turkey hat possibly be considered as a secret hat for this year. And since secret hats have been historically know to have an url like 

> https://winterbash2017.stackexchange.com/(hat_name_here)

I tried with 

> https://winterbash2017.stackexchange.com/turkey

Nothing, page not found.

Then, it came to me.
What about trying with.... **The Chicken**?

> https://winterbash2017.stackexchange.com/chicken

This time the results were different.
I got this.
[![enter image description here][1]][1]

An access denied sign and a chicken?
That's.. weird.

So, my <s>pony</s> human friend, I am left wondering. Is that just a minor taunt balpha left there knowing some Derpy user would probably try what I tried or is that a clue to uncover the greater secret of the Winter Chicken of the Bash?




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So, *as Shadow pointed out in his reply*, the response code seems to follow the joke (497 Not a Chicken). Currently no other clue was discovered.

To increase visibility, I will add here what other users already tried to do to see if anything triggers a different result:

 - change your username to Chicken and access the link
 - try with the somehow related "https://winterbash2017.stackexchange.com/teapot" version (the old Not-a-teapot html error code joke)
 - append parameters like "?Chicken=1" to the query string
 - change the user agent string to "Chicken"


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/EUyHE.png